HISTORY

OF JAVA
Prepared by: Joey Guiao Dingle

BSIT- 1B
 THE
FATHER
OF JAVA
James Arthur Gosling is the father of JAVA. Also called
as “Dr. JAVA”. Born at May 19, 1995.
He is a Canadian PC researcher, most popular as the
author and lead fashioner behind the Java programming
language.
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 What is Java?
Java is a general-purpose, object-oriented
programming language based on classes that is
designed to have fewer implementation
requirements. It is a computer platform for the
development of applications. As a result, Java is
quick, secure, and dependable. It's commonly used
in laptops, data centers, game consoles, scientific
supercomputers, cell phones, and other places to
construct Java applications.
Object-oriented
 Java is a computer language that focuses on
objects. In Java, everything is an object. Object-
oriented programming refers to the organization of
software as a collection of various types of objects
that include both data and behavior.
Simple
 Java is a fairly straightforward language to learn,
with a grammar that is simple, clear, and easy to
comprehend. Java is a simple programming
language, according to Sun Microsystem.
Secured
 The most well-known feature of Java is its security.
We can create virus-free systems using Java.
Platform Independent
 Java is platform independent in contrast to other
languages such as C, C++, and others, which are
compiled into platform-specific machines, whereas
Java is a write-once, run-anywhere language. The
hardware or software environment in which a
program runs is referred to as a platform.
Robust
 Robust's English mining industry is thriving.
Java is a tough programming language because:
• It makes extensive use of memory management.
• There aren't any pointers, hence there aren't any
security issues.
• Automatic garbage collection is provided by
Java and operates on the Java Virtual Machine
to get rid of things that are no longer in use by a
Java application.
• In Java, there are exception handling and type
checking mechanisms. All of these factors
contribute to Java's robustness.
Portable
 Java is portable because it allows you to move
the Java bytecode from one platform to another.
It does not necessitate any kind of
implementation.

Architecture-neutral
 Because there are no implementation-dependent
aspects in Java, such as the size of primitive
types, it is architecture neutral.
Dynamic
 Java is a dynamic programming language. It
allows classes to be loaded dynamically. It
means that classes are loaded only when they
are needed. It also has support for functions
written in its native languages, C and C++.
Interpreted
 Java byte code is converted to native machine
instructions on the fly and is not saved
anywhere. Because linking is a progressive and
light-weight process, the development process
is more quick and analytical.
High-Performance
 Java achieves high performance through the usage
of Just-In-Time compilers. Because Java bytecode is
"near" to native code, it is faster than other
traditional interpreted programming languages.
Multi-threaded
 A thread is like a second software that runs in the
background. By defining many threads, we can
design Java applications that handle multiple tasks
at once. The fundamental benefit of multi-threading
is that each thread does not take up memory. It has a
shared memory space. Threads are essential for
multi-media, Web applications, and other
Distributed
applications.
 Because it allows users to construct distributed
programs in Java, it is distributed. For developing
distributed applications, RMI and EJB are
employed. This Java capability allows us to access
files by calling methods from any system connected
to the internet.
 HISTORY OF JAVA
1991 1992
January, 1991. Project The month was March of
named “Green Project or 1992. Java was chosen as
Green Team”. James the new name for Oak. It
Gosling, Mike Sheridan, was inspired by a cup of
Patrick Naughton coffee. The Green Project
initiated the Java built a new language, a
language in 1991. James hardware platform, and an
Gosling, decided to interface in September, and
called it “GreenTalk”. James Gosling was given a
After that, it was called sample of it. As a subsidiary
“Oak”. It was named Oak of Sun Microsystems, the
because there was an Oak Green project was
tree outside his office incorporated as a separate
1993
The month was February,
1993. FirstPerson tries to get
a TV set-top box interactive
system order from Time-
Warner. By this time, the
green project had failed, and
the Time-Warner order had
also been lost. The focus
changed from residential
consumer electronics to TV
and set-top box-related
platforms. Second in
September, 1993 Arthur Van

1994
In June of 1994, Even the TV
interactive market failed to
provide results for FirstPerson,
and it was shut down. Sun
absorbed the employees. The goal
of the Liveoak project was to
produce an operating system
based on Oak. In July of 1994,
Patrick Naughton develops a web
browser that includes Java. Oak
for the Internet has been modified
from the Liveoak project.
September 1994: Naughton and
Jonatha Payne begin work on
HotJava, a Java-based web
browser, which receives
widespread support from
HISTORY OF JAVA
1995 1996
In May of 1995, Sun formally
presented Java and HotJava at the JDK 1.0 was released in January
SunWorld conference. In June of 1996.
1995, Netscape now supports Java
in their browser, which is a huge 1997
step forward. Sun's first Java
developer conference was held in JDK 1.1 was released in February
New York in September 1995. In 1997. JDBC, RMI, and Inner
October of 1995, In its release of Classes were all important
WWW WebSystem, Oracle includes aspects.
a Java-compatible browser. In
December of 1995, Microsoft's
support for Java in Internet Explorer
is a first step toward greater industry
acceptance.

1998
JDK 1.2 code, dubbed
Playgroud, was released in
December 1998. This
version, commonly referred
to as Java 2, was the most
widely used and saw the
greatest conversions.
Collections framework, JIT
compiler, policy tool, Java
foundation classes, Java 2D
class libraries, and significant
enhancements in JDBC were
among the features.
HISTORY OF JAVA
2000
JDK 1.3 code titled Kestrel was
released in May of 2000.
2002
J2SE 1.4 code titled Merlin was
released in February 2002. XML
Processing, Java Print, Logging,
JDBC 3.0, Assertions, and
Regular Expressions were among
the major features.
2004
J2SE 5.0, codenamed Tiger, was
released in September 2004.
Generics, Autoboxing, Annotations,
and Instrumentation were all
important parts. 
2006
2006 (November) When Java was
announced as open source, it caused
controversy. The license was written in
such a way that it went against the
general definition of open source.
Perhaps we could refer to it as "half-
sourced.“ Java SE 6, called Mustang,
was launched in December 2006.
Scripting Language Support, JDBC 4.0,
 HISTORY OF JAVA

2010 2011 2014

Oracle purchases Sun Java SE 7, codenamed Java SE 8 was launched on
and its products in Dolphin, was launched in July March 18, 2014. This is one
January 2010. Oracle 2011. This release came after of Java's most significant
now has control over a five-year wait, and it was releases. Lambda
Java. The month of the only one that took this Expressions, Pipelines and
October 2010 long. Dynamic language Streams, Date and Time
According to Steve support, the Java nio Package, API, Default Methods, Type
Jobs, Apple will no multiple exception handling, Annotations, Nashhorn
longer support Java in try with resources, and a slew JavaScript Engine,
the future.  of other improvements were Concurrent Accumulators,
among the highlights. Parallel operations,
PermGen Space Removed,

2017
Oracle discussed some of the
improvements that would be
included in Java 9 in 2016.
Greater support for multi-
gigabyte heaps, better native
code integration, a new
default garbage collector,
and a self-tuning JVM were
all anticipated for in Java 9.
The release of Java 9 was
repeatedly postponed, but it
was finally launched on
September 21, 2017.
HISTORY OF JAVA
2018
To enable big data sets, Java SE
10 removed primitive data types
and replaced them with 64-bit
accessible arrays. On March 20,
2018, it was released. JDK 11
was released on September 25,
2018.
2019
On March 19, 2019, JDK 12 was
released. JDK 13 was released
on September 17, 2019.
2020
On March 17, 2020, JDK 14
was released. On September 15,
2020, JDK 15 was released.
Support for multi-line string
literals is one of the new
features in Java 15. (aka Text
Blocks). The Shenandoah and Z
garbage collectors (also known
as ZGC) are now ready for use
in production (i.e. no longer
marked experimental). Oracle's
Solaris operating system (and
SPARC CPUs) are no longer
supported (while still available
in e.g. Java 11)
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2021 2022
On March 16, 2021, JDK 16 was released. JDK 18 is now under active
Ahead-of-Time compilation (including Graal
JIT) are no longer available in Java 16. The Java development,[367] due out in
implementation was and continues to be built in March 2022 if the current 6-
C++, with Java 16 allowing more modern C++14
(but not C++17 or C++20). The source code has
month release cycles continue.
also been posted to GitHub (dropping the
Mercurial source control system). JDK 17 is the
next long-term support (LTS) release, which is
now under Rampdown Phase Two and will be
released in September 2021 if the present 6-
month release cycles are maintained. Since
transitioning to the new 6-month release cycle,
Java 17 is planned to be the second long-term
support (LTS) release (the first being Java 11).